I never understood why someone would vacation in the desert. A fairly barren landscape with nothing much to see. The lack of life combined with needing water and violent sunburns has never made it a place I’ve sought to explore.

But I knew Jake, a kid from the snow-capped mountains of Vermont, hadn’t seen anything like this and decided it was time to kill a weekend so he could see a world so different from the one he grew up in.

welcome to the Desert